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Title: Suicide with cyanide gas, 1954
Creator: Sandusky
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954-04-18
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: 3 images. Suicide with cyanide gas, 18 April 1954. Officer Monty Gentile (examining dictionary in front room of Crockett's apartment). Book is opened to page explaining lethal effects of cyanide compounds mixed with acid. John Crockett (victim) died from lethal cyanide fumes.
Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Sandusky. Date: 1954-04-17. Assignment: Suicide with cyanide gas. Officer Monty Gentile examines dictionary in front of John Crockett's apartment. Book is opened to page explaining lethal effects of cyanide compounds mixed with acid. Inside of closet into which John Crocket sealed himself. Note saucer containing acid and powder which Crockett mixed to produce lethal cyanide fumes".
Type: image
Format: 3 photographs : negatives, b&w
10 x 13 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m20761
EXM-N-11096-010~1...~3
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m20761
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-N-11096-010~1.jpg
Language: English
Time Period: 1954-04-18
Source: 11096-010 [Sleeve Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
examiner-m1663

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